I’m more prone to push it too hard in a workout, drink too much, eat too much, and overall push the “body-machine” to excess.

Likewise, I’m more likely to push away pain as something in between me and what I want to do.

I’m more apt to believe my body is broken, and that its innate desires and tendencies are what’s wrong with me.

I need experts at every turn telling me how to stand, sit, walk, breathe and eat.

If I see myself as only my body …

I can get pretty neurotic about my alignment, form and posture.

I might take something simple, like a rolled ankle, and turn it into a psychoemotional problem. I’ll believe that rolled ankles are always caused by a faulty relationship to one’s center, or a lack of grounding, or the like.

I can get lost in the “pleasure principle,” of doing what feels good because my body is the best guide. I never really see my own blind spots (although I’ll think I see them).

I’ll tend to be much more interested in catharsis—physical and emotional release—than in getting to what’s causing imbalances in the first place.

May these suggestions be parameters that guide you to a sweet spot for you, the only person that matters as far as your body is concerned.